Everything's Coming Up Jihad
By Daniel Greenfield
SultanKnish.Blogspot.com
June has been a banner month for
Muslim lawsuits against the NYPD. First "Muslim
Advocates"
filed a lawsuit against the NYPD on behalf of
some New Jersey Muslims attending mosques that the
NYPD had assessed as a potential terrorism risk. The
"Muslim Advocates", like every other Muslim "civil
rights" group,
has a history of covering up and defending
terrorism.
The media is full of sympathetic interviews with
Muslims, who are baffled as to why the NYPD might be
surveiling mosques and Imams. Farhoud Khera, the
head of Muslim Advocates, complains, "There was
explicit reference to the fact that they weren't
targeting Syrian Jews or Iranian Jews or Egyptian
Christians, but really, the focus was on Muslims."
The extensive Coptic Christian and Persian Jewish
terrorism sprees aside, the goal here is to get the
NYPD to play the same "Three Blind Monkeys" game
that Federal law enforcement has taken up. And the
only answer is the TSAization of the NYPD, as the
last remaining counterterrorism force will prove
that it isn't singling out Muslims, by surveiling
Methodist churches and Chassidic synagogues for
signs of terrorist sympathies.
Less notable, but in some ways more significant,
Farhan Doe, a Muslim rejected by the NYPD
because he said gays should be imprisoned, has sued
the police for rejecting him because of his views.
Farhan Doe isn't alone in believing that, but unlike
non-Muslim applicants, he comes out of a cultural
and religious background in which imprisoning people
because they offend your morals is the duty of law
enforcement.
Farhan's, (predictably, Jewish), lawyer says that
his client has the right to believe whatever he
pleases, and he has a point. But the question is
with enough Farhans in the political, judicial and
enforcement arms, how long will the rest of us have
that right?
Tolerating people who will not tolerate you is fine,
so long as they draw the line between ideas and
action. The NYPD isn't surveilling New Jersey
mosques because there are some bigots in blue who
dislike immigrants, as the Associated Press, the
American Civil Liberties Union and the whole
lawyer-media complex would like you to believe. It's
doing it because New York City's biggest serial
killers and aspiring serial killers are Muslims who
kill in the name of their ideas.
Their biggest idea is that Allah had sent Mohammed
to make Islam "victorious over all religions, even
though the infidels may resist." (Koran 61:9) And
when the infidels resist, that's when you kill their
soldiers, sue their police officers, and blow up a
few buildings. Then you complain to the media that
the infidels are persecuting you by spying on the
mosques where the "Big Idea" is declaimed to the
faithful and refusing to allow you to join the
police force just because you think that Islamic law
supersedes American law.
The Clash of Civilizations is all-encompassing. It
doesn't just cover the big thing, like ramming
planes into skyscrapers, but also the little things.
Police forces don't enforce law, as much as social
harmony. The Nineties were a grand experiment in
changing troubled neighborhoods by improving their
quality through selective enforcement on quality of
life offenses. The NYPD's successes were credited to
that experiment. But who decides what social harmony
and the social good are?
For Mayor Bloomberg, it's banning large sodas. For
Farhan Doe, it's banning homosexuals. When there is
no limit to government infringement on rights, then
the law is a collection of bugbears and control
mechanisms. Islamic law on covering up women got its
start when one of Mohammed's companions spotted one
of Mo's wives at night and was able to tell her
apart due to her height. This somehow made for a
convincing case for compelling every woman to be
covered up head to toe.
It's senseless, but so is fighting obesity by
banning people from buying large sodas. When the
obsession of a few men is turned into law, then the
result is equally contemptuous of the individual as
a rotting sack of vile habits which he has to be
forced to abandon by the majority of the law. Once
you abandon the rights of the individual to the fiat
of activists, judges and politicians-- then laws can
be made by anyone who wants them badly enough. The
same process of judicial activism, hysteria, violent
attacks, and pressure groups that created gay
marriage can one day lock up the happy couples. It's
only a matter of who is making the laws.
The Arab Spring has revealed the ugly truth that,
given the vote, the Farhans in Egypt, Tunisia and
Turkey will vote to imprison gays, oppress
Christians, suppress women and all the way down the
long awful checklist of the Islamic formula for a
moral society. Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's
Tale is a fantasy in America, but it's how most
people agree things should be in the Muslim world.
The media is selflessly dedicated to lying about
that simple fact, no matter how many of their
reporters get raped, taken hostage or killed, until
the truth becomes impossible to conceal.
Back in cosmopolitan New York, the idea that
we're about to go the way of Cairo is absurd, but
then Cairo was also once a cosmopolitan place. (At
least until the more cosmopolitan parts of it were
burned down.) Oslo, Paris and London still are, but,
like Weimar, the clock of cosmopolitanism in those
places is ticking down to its final hours. The
secret of all societies is that they are all
democracies in their own way. A government can
repress its people, shoot them in alleyways and run
them over with tanks-- but it cannot be at odds with
their values for very long.
The jet-setting dictatorship of the enlightened who
clink champagne glasses over international law is a
global Weimar that will collapse in a rotten heap
when enough men shouting, "Allah Akbar" march
through their streets. And the timeline for that is
set by biology and airline schedules, but it's also
set by power and the acceptance of the inevitable.
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer has suggested
that it might be possible to outlaw burning the
Koran because it gets people killed. This is
shorthand for saying it upsets Muslims, who then go
out and kill people. Given a choice between doing
something about the Muslims who are killing people
or the freedom of speech that infuriates them,
Breyer, like most of the transatlantic left, chose
to do something about freedom.
But homosexuality also upsets people like Farhan
Doe. What happens when they decide to kill people
every time an episode of Glee airs? Do we
outlaw Glee? If we can outlaw burning the
Koran, then why not? If it's a question of pressure
groups, the followers of Mohammed can easily top
rallies and "It Gets Better" videos. And when the
time comes, they will. Is a society that is
unwilling to draw the line at the Bill of Rights,
really going to draw the line at Greenwich Village
and Castro Street?
Why don't we do as Farhan Doe suggests and lock up
gays? Ask a liberal and the answer will be
sputtering outrage, just as if you were to ask an
Imam from Al-Azhar why you shouldn't lock up gays,
the response would be sputtering outrage for the
opposite reason. There might be some mention of the
Bill of Rights, but the Bill of Rights is dead in
the age of the Living Constitution. If rights are
whatever the sophistry of a panel of Federal judges
says that they are, then they are no different than
Bloomberg's soda laws or Mohammed's Burqa mandate or
ObamaCare's health insurance mandate.
In a society like this, laws are like levers. If
enough pressure is applied in the right place, they
get put up or torn down. Farhan Doe on his own
wouldn't be able to lock up too many homosexuals,
though as a police officer, he would have plenty of
discretion for taking in people on the usual charges
like "Disturbing the Peace" or "Failure to Obey a
Police Order" that can be used to arrest nearly
anyone at any time.
But what happens when a police force has a lot of
Farhan Does working on it? For the answer to that,
we can take a trip to sunny Dearbonistan, where
Christians were arrested for "Disturbing the Peace"
and "Failure to Obey a Police Order", which as it
turned out was a legalism for "Being Christian in a
place claimed by Muslims".
Dearborn Police Chief Ron Haddad (not to be confused
with Ron Haddad Jr of Illinois, charged with
domestic terrorism) testified that a protest outside
an area mosque should not be allowed to take place,
because its Imam had told him that it would be worse
than a thousand deaths. Presumably three of them
would be worse than September 11.
That's how it works. Add enough Farhans together and
suddenly the system operates on a different set of
assumptions that signify that the clash of
civilizations has happened, and civilization has
lost.
For decades now, the civil rights movements have
been dedicated to taking away other people's rights
in the name of entitlement. That has brought us to a
state of affairs in which religious institutions are
obligated to cover abortions, white students are
seated at the back of the college admissions bus
behind black students, and wedding photographers are
sued for not wanting to shoot gay weddings. This is
not a society that frees people from oppression,
it's a society that oppresses everyone in the name
of someone else's greater good.
The Muslim Brotherhood's arms in America operate as
civil rights groups, and Islamization is a civil
rights movement, as much as any of them. Like them,
it believes in taking away the right of other people
to be left alone, to live and let live and to be
treated equally under the law. Like every radical
group it is demanding the right not to be
investigated by the police, the right not to have
its ideology treated as the contemptuously vicious
creed that it is, under the "Red-Baiting" or
"Islamophobia" clause, and the right to aspire to
one day take away everyone else's rights.
There are police forces in the Muslim world, but
they're tasked with arresting blasphemers, jailing
runaway brides and conducting virginity tests on
women found alone in the same room with a man. And
occasionally hanging the homosexuals, who as Messr
Ahmadinejad assured us don't exist, because as soon
as they exist, they are killed, resolving the
paradoxes of Islamic morality and Schrodinger's cat
in one instant.
The difference between their forces and ours is...
Farhan Doe.